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William Stafford
(American Poet)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 53
Times favorited:: 42

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“What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?”

William Stafford

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“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”

William Stafford

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“Let the bucket of memory down into the well,
bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one
stirring, no plans. Just being there.”

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“I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.”

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“They tell how it was, and how time
came along, and how it happened
again and again. They tell
the slant life takes when it turns
and slashes your face as a friend.”

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“Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.”

William Stafford

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“Silence on a hill where the path ended
and then the forest below
moving in one long whisper
as evening touched the leaves.”

William Stafford

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“The saddest are those not right in their lives
who are acting to make things right for others:
they act only from the self --
and that self will never be right:
no luck, no help, no wisdom.”

William Stafford

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“So, the world happens twice --
once what we see it as;
second it legends itself
deep, the way it is.”

William Stafford

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“At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.”

William Stafford

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